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  • Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites

    Canada-based exactEarth has teamed up with Harris to bring into service five additional satellites as part of the former’s automatic identification system satellite constellation designed to support the delivery of a real-time ship tracking service to the maritime market. The addition of five more exactEarth satellites brings the total number of operational systems in the […] More

  • Harris Maritime Surveillance Tech Begins Worldwide Vessel Tracking Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Maritime Surveillance Tech Begins Worldwide Vessel Tracking Operations

    Four Harris-built maritime vessel tracking receivers have begun to track nearly 250,000 ships around the world as part of hosted payloads onboard Iridium‘s NEXT satellites that were launched in January. Harris said Monday the receivers are designed to offer global automatic identification system information and ship tracking capacity for government and commercial users. Iridium’s NEXT satellite constellation is scheduled to reach full […] More

  • Orbital ATK's Cygnus Spacecraft Puts 4 Spire Global CubeSats Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft Puts 4 Spire Global CubeSats Into Orbit

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has deployed four small satellites from Spire Global above the International Space Station’s orbit as part of a secondary mission, Space News reported Saturday. Jeff Foust writes the spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. Alan Poindexter, launched four Lemur-2 satellites to help Spire build a constellation of cubesats designed to collect weather and ship tracking data. S.S. Alan […] More